As I have stated many times before, I am a doubting Thomas. I refuse to believe most everything without a direct personal experience.
In life I favor Cartesian logic, a philosophy rooted in mathematics. If things don’t add up properly, they are not credible.
It is as simple as this and that’s the way cold-blooded businessmen operate. They can pretend that they are devout individuals, but in business they will demand more concrete evidence than mere faith.
If I go to my banker and ask for a million dollar loan, he will undoubtedly ask me how I would repay it, or what kind of collateral I would use.
I don’t have any money, I would tell him, but God will provide.
If the banker didn’t laugh outright, he would certainly demand more proof of solvency.
I don’t have much, I would say, but you can use my life as collateral.
The banker would then point out that life is cheap (certainly not worth a million bucks) and that he very much doubts that the Almighty would help.
That’s why I am an atheist.
And that’s why I fail to understand why so many people blindly follow the worn out precepts of any religion.
How can you believe what nobody has ever been able to prove?
Miracles? Blind faith? Those are definitely not my cup of altar wine.
Anybody is entitled to think whatever they want, but I strenuously object to be imposed upon by any form of theocracy.
And that is the ultimate goal of any religious establishment: impose their biased, self-serving ways on everyone.
Nobody is infallible and no leader can ever claim to detain the absolute truth.
Personally, I claim the right to mock anybody I please without having to fear stoning, beheading or crucifixion.
About five centuries ago, the Spanish Inquisition started a reign of terror and tortured and put to death anybody who was not deemed a “true” Christian.
Now ISIS (the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) is doing the same (even worse) to those who are not “true” Muslims.
What kind of barbarous charade is this?
To live harmoniously with our neighbors we don’t need “guardians of the faith”. We need social workers and technocrats (an elite of technical experts) not a bunch of self-important, retrograde, bloodthirsty ignoramuses.
If you desperately need help with your computer, I would recommend calling for technical assistance rather than imploring divine providence.
It has proven to work much more expeditiously.
But again, to each his own.
Alain
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